After CDF Prefect Luis Ladaria Ferrer SJ reaffirmed the impossibility of ordaining women in the Catholic Church, it has become clear that cardinal-elect Ladaria’s statements run counter to a position recently enunciated by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. In an article...
The study examined two surveys of the behaviour of thousands of elementary school students enrolled in public, Catholic, and non-Catholic pri-vate schools. According to the teachers in the surveys, students at Catholic schools engaged in fewer “externalizing...
Pope Francis has stalled the German bishops’ plan to loosen restrictions on giving communion to Protestants telling them their document on the topic is “not ready” for publication. A two-thirds majority of the German hierarchy had voted in favour of a “pastoral...
A man was arrested June 2 for abandoning his newborn baby in a church in Kerala. Police said they traced the parents of the two-day old baby based on CCTV footage that went viral on social media platforms. The baby’s father will be charged under various sections of...
Pope Francis on June 11, accepted the resignation of three Chilean bishops including the controversial Juan Barros following a child sex abuse scandal in Chile which has come to haunt his papacy. The entire Chilean delegation of bishops tendered its resignation to the...
